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Raspberry Pi - Install Clang 8 and compile C++17 programs

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Paul

Updated 24 March 2019

In this article I will show you how to install Clang 8 on your Raspberry Pi system and how to compile C++17 programs. At the time of this writing Raspbian is based on Debian Stretch, which comes with the stable but slightly outdated GCC 6.3 as the default C and C++ compiler. If you prefer to use GCC 8 I wrote an article about installing GCC 8 on Raspberry Pi.

There is also a video version of this tutorial:

Let’s start the installation process. Open a Terminal and download the official binary of Clang 8 for Raspberry Pi:

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